skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Young people might not remember this, but finance used to be the industry you would track into if you were a high achieving member of the intelligentsia. The industry was viewed as being staffed to the gills with the best-and-brightest and was afforded anodyne coverage from the establishment media."

Speaking as someone who was born before the 80s, my perception is that you have misread this situation. The rise of finance was a consequence of the "greed is good" 80s, which meant that disproportionate rewards went to financial industries, which was both a cause and a consequence of the collapse of every other career open to the intelligentsia.

You see a similar situation on a smaller scale in the rise of Silicon Valley's start up culture, where that is seen as the most valid or only career choice in spite of asymptotically levelling benefits.

The demonstration that "the best and brightest" operating open loop without regulation leads to spectacular busts is left as an exercise to the reader.
Thanks for the feedback! So far customers are happy and we haven't had many issues. Its a big challenge for sure, but someone had to try and do something different :)
Trump loyalist Gaetz requesting that people follow him on a new app called Unify
Trump loyalist Congressman Gaetz requesting that people follow him on a new app called Unify

https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1353773649510232066

https://app.realunify.com/users/RepMattGaetz
>there's basically "meritocratic" caste system in this country: if you go to the right school, get into the right industry, and make enough money you are [ ... ]

This is a description of the absolute opposite of what "meritocratic" means.
Software scandals don't end up with people dead or extorted at gun point. Yet.
Oh yeah, the reboot with compression start. My wife didn't like it tho. :)

The true problem was a marginal 12 volt battery that caused a "won't go away until reboot" error in the power steering MCU. I realized it when the problem got significantly more common on winter mornings. Asked myself, "what's the part of of an electric power steering system that is sensitive to temperature?"
I think the point is that the author claims this is everything he knows, but it obviously is not. Does he know how to tell time? It’s not in the book.

Maybe the author did not mean to be taken so literally. But, really, it’s not possible to write down everything you know—and taken literally, it would lead to an infinite regression (now I know that I’ve just made this note about what I know, so...).

It’s impossible not to be selective, to choose what’s worth writing down.
What views are the real question. If they have by my standards horrible tastes certainly. If they deny that hugging you while they are on fire will burn you, that juggling loaded guns is dangerous, or view you as subhumans to be exploited not distrusting them is frankly dangerously stupid.

Looking at costs alone without context is a bad idea here as it is for beancounters.
Moderna says it believes vaccine will work against new variants
From the essay you linked:

"Traces of Japan were not entirely unknown in the Northwest. More than 1,000 Japanese ships are estimated to have disappeared during the Exclusion Era (1633-1854). Most presumably sank in storms, but iron fittings and other remnants of some of those ships washed up on the Northwest coast over time. A few drifted to coastal areas farther south with survivors on board. According to historian Frederik L. Schodt, at least 34 Japanese sailors reached the shores of North America or Mexico on disabled ships between 1806 and 1852. One of the best known cases involved the Tokujomaru, which ran aground near Santa Barbara, California, in 1813, with three survivors out of a crew of 14. But until the Hojunmaru, there is no record of the presence of any Japanese, sailors or otherwise, in what is now the state of Washington."
I would guess "some time around 2012".
Is this something similar to https://simplelogin.io/? If it is, simplelogin is a self-hostable solution. If you're really worried about privacy, this would cut out the possibility that Mozilla might be reading your messages.
How risky is it to run an Ubuntu server?

Assuming you turn on auto-updates to get security updates.. and do basic hardening like fail2ban.

Does it really need much handholding?
(Assuming you don't run vulnerable versions of various server software inside a docker container)

Curious, if going fully static is really that much better..
For a direct answer to your question, the Polynesians populated much of the vast Pacific ocean and founded many island native lineages. There is some strong evidence they came into contact with West Coast American natives within the last couple thousand years [0].

> We find conclusive evidence for prehistoric contact of Polynesian individuals with Native American individuals (around AD 1200) contemporaneous with the settlement of remote Oceania. Our analyses suggest strongly that a single contact event occurred in eastern Polynesia, before the settlement of Rapa Nui, between Polynesian individuals and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2.epdf
War on Drugs started it, but the War on Terror accelerated it. The GOP misinformation campaign is finishing it off...

Realistically, this is just a reversion to things in the early 20th century. The system of trust we've built up is only about 50 or 60 years old, and it's decayed as people took it for granted. Hopefully we're noticing it now.
Six fold reduction is extremely concerning!

As the vaccine becomes more widespread, it will be tested more widely by exposure to the virus and this will trigger faster evolutionary cycles by the virus to defeat the vaccine.

My forecast is we will have to get much faster at releasing updated vaccines and distributing them in order to stay ahead of this virus -- and that everyone will need to be vaccinated every 6 months until we hit sufficient heard immunity of the circulating strains such that is stops circulating so rapidly and the speed of mutation consequently reduces.
> Proprietary databases have found their niche with qualitatively higher performance and throughput -- often 10-100x -- than the best open source has to offer on the same hardware footprint.

This is not true in general. It depends on the workload. Here's an example: MySQL 8.0 is benchmarked at over 1M QPS on I/O bound reads using Optane SSDs. [1] You would need to show that proprietary software hits 10-100M QPS for this workload and hardware configuration. Oracle and SQL Server are often faster because they have better query planning but it's not orders of magnitude.

[1] http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/posts/mysql-performance-1m-iobo...
Yeah, most general aviation planes do. Has a lot to do with infrastructure and certification requirements. You have to modify, then re-certify the engine. Most manufacturers don't want to do that unless there's a clear benefit.

Most people would prefer to use standard automotive gasoline. You can see people in the experimental/sports aircraft category rejoicing when they can find a "MoGas" pump.
Time for a p2p app store that works on all devices.
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Although the article was written in an extremely straightforward and dry technical manner, this was comedy gold.
i agree. we should just give it to people who want the vaccine. it still creates sufficient immunity. outreach can happen parallel to the vaccinations.

everything seems to be based on the model of scarcity economy. sometimes the scarcity is artificial when clearly the issue is about demand rather than supply.
Are you sure?
I think there's lots of consumers that find the tradeoff okay - in fact I hear people state as much all the time. Maybe they don't know the extent of the tracking, or they don't care, but the opinion exists and it's not negligible.

If companies could anonymously track users, and still maintain the marketing backbone of the internet I think most people would be fine with it -- in fact, prefer it.
On schedule, it would have been a coin toss: no RJ45, no serial, so little use to techs who don't want to carry a USB adapter.

It's DOA in 2021: no USBC, outdated CPU, thicker than a brick.

The replaceable CPU board might have been a good idea IF it had been in say the NVidia jetson format. As it is, it just add bulks without any replacement currently available.

Hopefully, raspberry or odroid or someone else will popularize a board format, a bit like how MXM became standard for PCIe GPUs.

Having M2 for the SSD, Wifi and WWAN is something else I'd want in such a small device - so if it's late to the market, just replace the boards, and you're good to go.
It's been a while since node names were actually physical measurements though. For example, at the 3nm node the fin width is 5nm (as noted in the article).
Do sites like this deserve my eyeballs?

If the site is essential I wipe the cookies before and after reading.

Most of the time I skip the site in favour of another one.
Ah, okay. Those are fair points.
> what their name says: freedom.

Not necessarily disagreeing with your actual point, but neither of the F's in EFF stands for "freedom".
You are correct, grab any of the excellent financial history books written by Frederick Lewis Allen. People assume things that have not existed very long have always existed.
Interesting.

Have you a reference?

I had a friend working on industrial UPS systems that used large flywheels. Was years ago so I do not know the details.

I think they could supply a lot of energy quickly (no start up time) but maybe not for long?
Uber and AirBnB actually burned extreme amounts of trust. Blatantly illegal business practices and general sociopathy of the former, facilitating destruction of local neighbourhoods in case of the latter - adding an app on top of existing practices doesn't pay back for what it cost to get there.
Essential, but maintaining a browser in the face of enormous competition from Google and Microsoft is tough. If you support Firefox with these new endeavors, you are helping preserve the browser as well. Since times are changing, Mozilla must either adapt or be out-competed.
You are 100% right, the C2 is a tank. I have one too.
But the C2 might not be right for everyone. I think we might be able to get more butts on rowers if we can make the experience more enjoyable for those who aren't motivated by the C2 and its current content.
Thanks for the reminder, just added it to my house-wide blocklist.
Paged Out - https://pagedout.institute/

Rafale - https://www.rafale.org
They're not managing this by having a huge amount of capital; what's happening here only works under some really specific circumstances. Recent-ish short interest data had GME at ludicrous levels (over 100% of issued stock was shorted due to market maker activity). Good news on a large investment from a big name who then joins the board spurs optimistic pricing, which puts the top end of call options (which are normally pie in the sky lottery tickets) within range. Some really questionable bull decision making (WSB's forte) gets retail investors interested, price keeps going up, and eventually all calls are in-the-money. Large market makers selling what _used_ to be absurd calls are now going to have to make good on them and start buying up stock to cover them. Stock price is going up, retail bulls are pepped up, and anybody short on GME (and there were some people that were outrageously short) is now looking down the barrel of huge losses. Short sellers need to start considering getting their hands on this stock to make good, which applies upward pressure, making other short sellers consider doing the same. This all looks good for bulls, so they're simultaneously applying upward pressure. Market makers who didn't learn their lesson have written more call options for strike prices that are now in range.

This is a perfect storm where very big players are incredibly overextended and don't know how to deal with irresponsible/rash decision makers. It's not impossible for it to happen again, but these are not conditions WSB or similar peanut galleries can reliably recreate.
It's like linking to project veritas. If I wanted to see some highly out of context and edited video to fit a narrative there are plenty of those around and none of them are all that compelling
The link below shows up on occasion and is a good reminder that not only do we need to keep up with physical/practical trust but philosophical as well.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna

(It explores implants and using them vs. being used by them.)
There are plenty of safe alternatives.
I think it’s hilarious that the head of the British colony found 3 random Japanese people (2 of which were not even 18) and sent them to England to attempt to use them as trade diplomats
It seems to me like you're just being circular now, like you're saying "Sure, MS reactors exist, but we don't know if they are good because we haven't done the work to find out."

Going back to the original article "Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?" we could ask "Why aren't Molten Salt reactors more popular?"
California Lifts Covid-19 Stay-at-Home Order Statewide – Deadline
> Lets say someone gets access to the server, they can still read the ENV vars, right?

Correct. Easiest way is to look at `/proc/$pid/environ`. It contains the \0 separated values for that process.
Mosquitos eat mostly flower nectar. Males never bite. Females still eat nectar but need blood to produce eggs.

Mosquito larvae are very good for filtering water.
Get some experts in the area to rank your existing content and suggest weightings for their recommended sources. This is the less from launch after launch of really great sites that aggregate information.

Let's take Stack Overflow as an example. Jeff found a small group of experts and expanded it. They seeded both questions and answers. They didn't bring on just one or two experts though, they brought on enough to ensure a good distribution (not perfect) of viewpoints and then reviewed before expansion. They kept repeating this and didn't optimize for just one kind of developer (Django over Java.) All segments of developers tended to need the same features, but it would show up with one segment first. Getting answers on some topics wasn't possible until the product was more mature. Kill crap ruthlessly like SO did with downvoting and moderator-led deletion.

If you are building an ML model then you are going to need to find a range of experts and either seed from what they are sharing, or create a review system. You can reward people with kudos on a contribution page, donations to open source projects or charities (even on behalf of a group of them), or find another way to motivate them. It just needs some hustle, but you've got to forget about purity, be open about how your model works, and iterate.
I've always wanted to see what it is like racing against some of the best athletes like Olympic boxers or MMA champions, but it doesn't mean I'm a hard core rower :)
Reminiscent to me of Call of Duty Warzone; it has loadouts which you can give custom names (that only you see!) which are protected with a profanity filter. Comically, some of the literal names of the guns are banned as being profane, like "MP5".
This is most likely due to the enormous capital needed to start such a service. I suspect if they were successful it would be all-paid at first.
For DHL orders you can sign the signature in advance... It's towards the bottom of a page when viewing a tracking number.
I was thinking the same thing. Something more inline with the GPD Micro PC [0].

[0] https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc
Additionally cookies are not bad, 3rd party cookies are not even necessarily bad. Tracking people is bad.
Are you expecting them to use Windows everywhere as well?
Interesting to see BMPC for the high end - I've heard it's not great as a set it and leave it option (also bad battery life).

For the capture card: elgato camlink 4k works well.

Is the Sony software any good? I've hard that people still say to use the capture card with that anyway. I have a decent mic, but I'm still using the kind of crappy logitech webcam because I couldn't decide between all the camera options that all seemed to have tradeoffs (lumix gh5, lumix g100, sony a7siii, sony zv1, etc.)

If you'd be willing to break some of those down in a comment I'd really appreciate it. Why is the a6400 the right choice? what lens is best for remote work and why? Is the ring light better than key lights? Why prefer one of the other?

Thanks!
Technically that has happened: https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-race-condition-therac-2...

But you're right, software bugs don't generally result in lives lost, at least directly.
It'd be more interesting if it was a pay-per-use pricing model, e.g.: $0 the first n calls (to try the service, even if it's for commercial purposes) and then $0.0016 per call of whatever you want to charge
> Route of administration makes a really big difference in how addictive and dangerous a drug is

This is interesting, I had no idea. What a fascinating article.

I have wondered if there are also some specific personality differences involved in addiction, like the dichotomy of reinforcing preferred mindsets vs. reinforcing under-utilized mindsets.

To give an example, let's say Person 1 likes a given stimulant because they are essentially an all-out person, and stimulation is the law for them. The stimulant therefore reinforces their theme. But addiction is more likely because they are taking it for reinforcement reasons and literally don't know what to do about being less-than-stimulated. We can say that fear of the unknown is a factor that keeps them clinging to the drug.

Person 2 takes the stimulant because they are a bit of a low-mood type, and it brings things up to normal-human standards for them. They have learned to appreciate some of those new high points, now that they've seen how low things can get. Addiction is less likely because they are not really "into" stimulation in general, and can operate fine without it (well--much of the time), but they have also learned that they can use a bit of a mood upgrade. This person has a new knowledge of the now-known, which is more about learning and growth and less about fear.
> if you have 1000 categories and some meta information (region based on IP address etc.), you will be able to track down individual users with pretty good accuracy.

Looking at the corresponding TURTLEDOVE proposal, it's sending only a handful of the known categories to any given ad network at any given time. Floc also claims that:

> The collection of cohorts will be analyzed to ensure that cohorts are of sufficient size
In the early 1980s, white supremacist groups were early adopters of the internet
> Seeing 1950's America is heartbreaking for me.

> https://www.radiogunk.com/forums/index.php?threads/1950s-ame...

Except for the clothes (which aren't very different), that could be a picture of downtown Placerville today (well, not today because of the weather, but…) Or a million other places in today's USA.

> Where’s the broken glass? The needles, the poop?

The same place as the non-white people, who are disproportionately also the people cleaning up the places where the white people live without it.

> The stumbling drunks harassing the young women?

Most everywhere, including indoors. That was normal, accepted, unremarkable behavior.
Sure, I’d like to see that .bib to figure out what went wrong, if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

lee@lee-phillips.org

But if the pubs that appeared on the CV are not even in your .bib, then the problem is not there, but in the code somewhere.
Why are React component libraries so complicated compared to Svelte?
Some humans are likely completely off grid and not on record anywhere.

Quite a few, including a good percentage of my relatives.

One is particularly good at it. Aside from the wages his employer reports to the federal government, property ownership records, and an SSN, he simply doesn't exist.

His get paid each week in cash. Doesn't have a bank account or credit card. Because of his lifestyle and the type of vehicle he uses, he doesn't need a driver's license, registration, or insurance. His home has solar panels, a propane generator, and a well, so no utilities. I don't know what he does about trash service, but having seen the town, I wouldn't be surprised if it's still legal to burn your garbage on your property.

He's happy. Not paranoid that I can tell. He just lives a simple life where satisfaction comes from reading books and improving his mind, and not from hoarding electronic gadgets and social media thumbs to prove his worth.
That's quite a campaign. And I once had a job whose major role was to put out the dumpster fire caused by this lovely little framework.
Yup, that's about how much effort I expected them to put into their app store: absolutely nothing beyond cheap, automated heuristics. Why invest in a decent ecosystem when you're one of the two options in town?

I'm about an inch away from throwing my phone in the river and switching to a GPS-only device for navigating in my car. All the convenience a mobile device offers can't make up for the crap software experience you're forced into—literally ransoming the use of your phone through their company store.
Probably because Teams is the worst.

More then likely it's because that's what they used before they got bought and haven't been forced to migrate over yet, they also seem to have bots, which are not really a direct copy and paste into MS Teams, and likely them converting over isn't a high priority.
NYC is hiring a Director of Broadband Tech to make universal broadband a reality
> the company has invested in hiring over 50 full-time human moderation

I just can't help but laugh at this. Over 50 people, so likely under 60. For a company serving 500 million daily active users and 1 trillion aids/month...

Just comedy gold.

And these people are on minimum wage, and we don't even know in what country. Churn rate ~90%/month. But that's just a side joke.

This is what people value, middlemen trading trash for cash.

$2.6 billion, fuck my whole life.
> Trying to pursue this commercially just seems like a quick way to lose a lot of money.

Vancouver <-> Whistler/Victoria. If it's cleaner and quieter than the conventional planes then there will be a market.

But yeah it's a niche "1%er + novelty" market for sure.
Video verification is completely normal at this point
A programmer goes grocery shopping for his wife. She tells him, "Go buy a loaf of bread and if they have eggs, bring six."

A while later he arrives home with six loaves of bread. When he sees the puzzled expression on her face he says, "Why, they did have eggs."
Yes, federated and decentralised which can run Windows and SPARC applications.
>Mass producing anything on that scale is an exceptional feat.

Mass producing anything on that scale that will then go on working for years at ~ 3Billion movements per second reliably is simply astounding.
Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
In English / is an abbreviation for and.

An abbreviation widely accepted by several institutions with a saying in programming language standards, only people in forums get uptight about writing C/C++.
(OP) A friend highly recommended this book to me and I was impressed by the testimonials on its homepage. So I thought HN might find it interesting, too. I have no connection to the author.
....aaaaaaand now they are getting kicked off.
I would love to see that life story in a film (any Netflix people around?!). One of the most captivating Wikipedia entries I’ve ever read.
The Difference Between Martyrdom and a Victim-Complex
See also Dark Souls multiplayer, in which you can see many “K***hts” running around.
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